"Similar Images Already Posted" (Second thread)

I expect an urgent response, so I opened a new thread to make it more visible.

By @coffeeman_L

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Stock receives thousands of submissions & inquiries per week. Too many to handle right away. Don't expect the impossible.  It's not going to happen due to the heavy volume they receive. 

I've said this before, I think Stock might be testing a new pre-evaluation tool that looks for similar images.  Whether it works as intended, or not, is another issue.  

Just ride this storm out like everyone else is. There's no sense in getting worked up about the review process.  It's out of our control.  And it has no impact on account termination.  So stop worrying.

You should post in the contributor forum.

Interestingly, I just noticed that the "Similar Images Already Submitted" rejection reason is as follows: (Translated from Turkish to English with Google Translate)

"Similar Images Already Submitted

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to evaluate your image. Unfortunately, during our review, we determined that it is similar to other images you have previously uploaded, so we cannot accept it in our collection.

Images must be different in a way that adds value to our customers. We cannot accept more than three color variations of the same image or similar images. Also, models must be in different situations or with different expressions. Please be selective and submit only the best of each series of images......"

So, if I'm not mistaken, it says that the archive to be used as a basis for similarity here is the ones I uploaded.

However, the notification I received by email yesterday said that the similarity covers the entire Adobe Stock archive (or so I understood).

Complete confusion.

I just received the above response from Adobe regarding my objection yesterday.

If I am not mistaken, the images that were rejected due to "Similar Content Has Already Been Submitted" do not only include my own submissions, but also the entire Adobe Stock archive. (Please correct me if I am wrong).

I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing I can do in such a case. In other words, no matter what subject I produce in the giant Adobe Stock, which already has hundreds of millions of images in its archive, there are already thousands - maybe tens of thousands - of images that have already been produced and submitted on that subject.

Logically, there will be similar ones to what I have done among these thousands - tens of thousands.

I guess that is the end of my Adobe Stock dream - I think my account will also be closed soon. However, this was a perfect job for me to do when I was about to retire: Work when you want, don't work when you want, you don't have any contact with the customer during sales - so you don't have to deal with the endless questions and requests of the customers, or I don't know, even when you sleep your shop continues to work and sell, you work alone - you don't have to deal with staffing problems, etc...

I haven't found a job this good and I don't think I will ever find one.

In short, I'm sad.

A lot of my submissions got rejected for "Similar Images Already Posted" as well and are ones I haven't uploaded yet to the site. I'm gonna halt uploading until we get more information on the problem to avoid account suspension.

The asset below was among those I've recently had rejected for being "too similar" to other submissions. It was created using Midjourney.



I then took the above image and used it as a reference model in Firefly to produce the following.



Finally, I edited the asset and submitted this. It was accepted within 24 hours. Why was the first one too similar, but this one not? I do concentrate largely on photorealistic portraits, so I like to switch it up sometimes and mix in some abstract or surreal submissions, along with more "mundane examples such as animals, office workers, etc., which are also being rejected as being too similar.

If anything, I would think the image below is more "similar" to my usual submissions from a photorealistic perspective than my initial submission. 

It appears some extremely subjective decisions are being made here, or some sweeping policy changes that Adobe has yet to inform us about. Meanwhile, there are still contributors uploading hundreds of assets so similar that they are close to being exact duplicates, which some in fact are.

Only 5? I've had 36, with perhaps two or three actual acceptances mixed in. There is no one to contact except Contributor Support. You will receive a canned reply, but that doesn't mean complaints aren't being read. If enough people affected by this issue write in, maybe we can at least get an explanation from Adobe as to why this is happening and what we can do to avoid it going forward.